grandmother of US President Barack Obama

PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete poses with Mama Sarah Obama, grandmother of US President Barack Obama at Villa Rosa Kempinski Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday. Mama Sarah briefed the president on her benevolent institution, Mama Sarah Obama Foundation (MSOF), which is expected to be launched on Thursday to support educational development in her Kogero home village in Kenya’s Nyanza Province. The president, who was in Nairobi to attend the AU Heads of State and Government Meeting on Peace and Security later flew back home to continue with his tour of Dodoma Region.He went straight to Kondoa. (Photo by State House)

The Mama Sarah Obama Foundation is the realization of a long-term dream. The foundation was founded after years of hard work helping orphans and poverty-stricken families feed and educate their children.